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Old Tupi
kupu'yûasu
Etymology
From *kupu'y(“cupuí”) + -ûasu(augmentative suffix).
Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 222v: “Copouih Ouaſſou[Kupu'yûasu]”
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